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The Critic and the Author: Response
No full textNicholas Grene’s response to Peter James Harris’ review to the book The Politics of Irish Drama.Nicholas Grene’s response to Peter James Harris’ review to the book The Politics of Irish Drama
Josephus : noble sicarii suicide or mass-slaughter at Mount Masada? / Nicholas Peter Legh Allen
No full textAn attempt is made to ratiocinate historical events at Mount Masada in c. 74 C.E. as related by Josephus Flavius. Cohen (1982:393) clearly sees Josephus as a mostly dishonest historian, one who happily exaggerates and embellishes his accounts. As a consequence of this rhetorical straight-jacket that he places Josephus within, Cohen (for one) cannot accept Josephus’ Masada account as being an “unalloyed version of the truth”. The author analyses Josephus’ track record apropos his recording of other historical events and submits that, rhetorical strategies aside, the historian can largely trust Josephus’ accounts
Ocean Heat Transport from the Subtropical Gyre to the Subpolar Gyre in the North Atlantic
No full textThe North Atlantic Ocean transports on the order of 1 petawatt of heat poleward from the Equator toward the high-latitude Arctic via an exchange of warm, upper-layer water for cold bottom water, reducing the Equator-to-pole temperature gradient and providing an opportunity for regional climate predictability at seasonal to decadal time scales. As more high-quality observations and numerical models of the ocean have become available in the past decade, oceanographers have realized that the variability in this oceanic meridional heat transport is not coherent across latitudes, with a prominent break in the meridional coherence between the subtropical gyre and the subpolar gyre. In this dissertation, I demonstrate the progress I have made on understanding how heat is conveyed from the subtropical gyre to the subpolar gyre in the North Atlantic at these critical inter-gyre latitudes (35°N-50°N). I use a suite of data including databases of in situ measurements of oceanic temperature and salinity, satellite observations of sea-surface temperature and height, and ocean model output of ocean current velocities, temperature and salinity. I conclude that a majority of the inter-gyre heat transport in the North Atlantic can be explained by variability in the strength of the sub-surface transport between the gyres. In this work, I also test whether pathways for propagating sea-surface temperature anomalies exist between the gyres as has been previously suggested and find that there is no evidence for this pathway in more modern satellite measurements. In addition, I show that variability in the sub-surface pathway cannot be explained by dynamics in the size and strength of the subpolar gyre as has long been assumed. Finally, I do a detailed analysis within two ocean circulation models and conclude that the oceanic heat fluxes are as important or more important as the surface atmospheric forcing to the temperature variability in the northeastern Atlantic, even at high frequencies. I then find that the origin of these oceanic heat fluxes stem from variability in the upper limb of the overturning circulation at inter-gyre latitudes. These results impact how we might expect to track ocean heat fluxes and thus where to look for climate predictability in the North Atlantic sector.</p
Zero to one: notes on start ups, or how to build the future
No full textThe next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. It’s easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. Every new creation goes from 0 to 1. This book is about how to get there. ‘Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.’ ELON MUSK, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla ‘This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.’ MARK ZUCKERBERG, CEO of Facebook ‘When a risk taker writes a book, read it. In the case of Peter Thiel, read it twice. Or, to be safe, three times. This is a classic.’ NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB, author of The Black Swa
The book of wheat :an economic history and practical manual of the wheat industry
No full textWheat Grain and Plant -- Improvement -- Natural Environment - Cultivation - Harvesting -- Yield and Cost of Production -- Crop Rotation and Irrigation - Fertilizers - Diseases -- Insect Enemies - Transportation -- Storage -- Marketing -- Prices - Milling - Consumption -- Production and Movement -- Classification of Wheat - Bibliography -- IndexPeter T. Dondlinger, Ph.D Yale University's graduate, taught mathematics and physics in Fairmount College from 1904.Short biography: Peter Tracy Dondlinger, American author, educator. Member National Geography Society, American Forestry Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Breeders Association, American Economic Association.Dondlinger, Peter Tracy was born on October 26, 1877 in Port Washington. Wisconsin. Son of Nicholas and Katherine (Kyle) Dondlinger. He earned Bachelor of Arts at National Normal U., Lebanon, O., 1899 and Doctor of Philosophy at Yale University, 1904. Career: Professor mathematics, Uraina Normal College, Glasgow, Kentucky, 1899-1900. Teacher, public sehs., Delaware County, Indiana, 1900-1901. Professor mathematics, Fairmount College, Wichita, Kansas, 1904-1906
Nicholas Tempelfeld of Brzeg’s two redactions of Principia in Tractatum Petri Hispani
No full textNicholas Tempelfeld of Brzeg (ca. 1400–1471) was a distinguished Silesian figure among the scholar of the University of Krakow: he was a professor of theology educated there, a dean of the Faculty of Arts, a canonic of St. Florian’s Chapel, a preacher in St. Mary’s Church in Krakow and St. Elisabeth’s Church in Wroclaw, and even a politician, if we may call the author of the treatise against Czech king George of Podiebrad so. His philosophical output remains unknown since he seems to have written a single commentary on Aristotle (Parva naturalia) and is to be discovered on the basis of research into his university sermons. The paper presents the edition (preceded by a substantial introduction) of two redactions — a draft and a proper redaction — of such a sermon: his opening lectures on Summulae logicales by Peter of Spain, composed during his activity at the University of Krakow. The draft consists of seven notabilia only, dealing primarily with some general problems concerning logic. The proper redaction is a deeply elaborated introduction to Peter’s work, that — according to Nicholas — should be entitled: The treatise by Peter of Spain dealing with the argumentation and some other things relating to it, compiling views of the other philosophers, composed because of the love for young students to these students obtain the way of argumentation, as well as the possibility to discern the truth from the false. It contains the recommendation of logic, some general logical problems, like the causes and subject matter of commented text, and the accessus to the first part of the Tractatus. Both versions of the sermon are preserved in Ms. Wroclaw, University Library, cod. I Q 380
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Henry Suso and Richard Rolle: Devotional Mobility and Translation in Late-Medieval England and Germany
No full textHenry Suso (c. 1295-1366) and Richard Rolle (c. 1300-1349) were two of the most popular authors in late-medieval England and Germany: their Latin works survive in hundreds of manuscripts owned by both lay and religious readers across Europe. Authority and exemplarity are central to their works, both writers present themselves as eponymous characters in their works, creating "pseudo-autobiographies" which offer their author-characters to the reader as ideal exemplars for imitation. Also central to their authorial strategy is their attention to feminine aspects of both divinity and audience; both imagine themselves as brides of Christ even as they pledge their devotion to Wisdom, a (female) combination of the Old Testament Goddess and Christ incarnate. The imagery of courtly love is employed both as an enticement for readers and as a natural extension of their internalization of the allegorical interpretation of the Song of Songs; their claims to bear the name of Jesus on their heart lead to iconographic crossover in representations of Rolle in English manuscripts. Music and aurality are repeatedly employed as a fundamental aspect of their descriptions of mystical experience. Suso was read widely in late-medieval England, both in Latin and in English translation; as his popularity grew, so too did his influence on English literature and theology. The chapters of the Horologium Sapientiae on the Eucharist and the art of dying well proved especially popular. Two Carthusians, Nicholas Love and the author of the Speculum Devotorum, for instance, both drew on Suso's treatment of the Eucharist in reinforcing orthodox beliefs surrounding the sacrament of the altar – yet a recently-discovered independent translation of the same text is found in a manuscript otherwise containing Lollard tracts. Suso's liturgy in honor of Eternal Wisdom proved his most popular and enduring contribution to English literature: it entered Sarum Use Books of Hours by the end of the fifteenth century and was printed in English translation towards the end of the sixteenth
Odoardo Fialetti (1573-c.1638): the interrelation of Venetian art and anatomy, and his importance in England
No full textBolognese artist Odoardo Fialetti (1573 – c.1638) is a fascinating figure upon which curiously little work has been done. Though he is a rarely discussed pupil of Tintoretto, Fialetti’s oeuvre is vast (some 55 known paintings and approximately 450 prints) and incredibly diverse. His work encompasses religious subjects, portraits, books on drawing and sport, maps, and illustration for treatises on city defences, literary texts, and anatomy. His work was influential for several hundred years after his death, not only in Venice and northern Italy, but also in France where his designs were used as decoration on faïence produced at Nevers, and England, where his paintings were much admired at court. Fialetti’s close association with Sir Henry Wotton, and the careful copy of his drawing book made by Alexander Browne in the mid-seventeenth century, attest to his impact on the formation of an Italianate sensibility in the appreciation of the visual arts in Early Modern England. In the realm of science, Fialetti’s influence can be deduced from his drawings of curiously animated cadavers in detailed landscapes to those of future generations of anatomists and illustrators throughout Europe. Because of the diverse associations and projects throughout his career, the study of Fialetti is inherently interdisciplinary, encompassing the history of art, history of science and history of the Venetian book trade, as well as crossing geographical boundaries in linking Venetian art and English tastes of the late renaissance and early baroque. Through examination of his extant oeuvre, as well as discussion of lost work, I aim to recognise Fialetti’s status as an artist responding to contemporary artistic debates (disegno versus colorito), a changing cultural climate and the burgeoning importance of the printed medium
Mineral acquisition from clay by Budongo Forest chimpanzees
No full textDate of Acceptance: 06/07/2015Chimpanzees of the Sonso community, Budongo Forest, Uganda were observed eating clay and drinking clay-water from waterholes. We show that clay, clay-rich water, and clay obtained with leaf sponges, provide a range of minerals in different concentrations. The presence of aluminium in the clay consumed indicates that it takes the form of kaolinite. We discuss the contribution of clay geophagy to the mineral intake of the Sonso chimpanzees and show that clay eaten using leaf sponges is particularly rich in minerals. We show that termite mound soil, also regularly consumed, is rich in minerals. We discuss the frequency of clay and termite soil geophagy in the context of the disappearance from Budongo Forest of a formerly rich source of minerals, the decaying pith of Raphia farinifera palms.Peer reviewe
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